{"id":10216,"date":"2009-01-23T05:33:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2009-01-23T05:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:33:45","slug":"xinjiang-tries-border-travel-with-surrounding-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2009\/01\/23\/10216\/","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang Tries Border Travel With Surrounding Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, which has many border crossings, is trying to run cross-border travel with the surrounding countries in Central Asia to promote bilateral economic and cultural exchanges.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chi Chongqing, secretary of the Xinjiang Tourism Bureau, stated that Xinjiang launched two 2-7 day visits to Kazakstan between 1989 and 1993, but later halted them. Chi said that XTB is now applying to open the most commonly-used border crossings as the trial ports for cross-border travel and trying to resume Yili-Hurgos 2-day trip and 7-day trip and develop Kazakstan, Kyrghyz and Uzbekistan as travel destinations for Chinese citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Chi said compared with trips to European and American countries, it is cheaper, easier, and more convenient for Chinese tourists to travel in Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p>As a Chinese region with the longest border and most open border crossings, Xinjiang neighbors eight countries and has 17 national class-one border crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, which has many border crossings, is trying to run cross-border travel with the surrounding countries in Central Asia to promote bilateral economic and cultural exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[15609,15979,14131,15980,13275,15070,15981,15982,12782,15983,14915,12784,13781],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-america","tag-border-crossing","tag-central-asia","tag-cross-border-travel","tag-europe","tag-kazakstan","tag-kyrghyz","tag-passport","tag-tourism","tag-travel-permit","tag-uzbekistan","tag-visa","tag-xinjiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}